An iMessage kitchen assistant that reads your fridge, builds the list and places the order
Served is an AI agent you reach on iMessage. To start, text a number. It replies when asked and does not start conversations.
How Served works
Point a camera at what is in the fridge and it comes back with something to cook, then the shopping list, then the shopping. It is one of the few listings whose job ends in a purchase rather than in a message, and it shops at Walmart and Instacart today with Target, Whole Foods and Aldi listed as coming.
The policy is the clearest description of agency anywhere in this directory. It says that when you ask it to shop, you authorise Served to act as your agent to build a cart and place orders at the retailers you connect, and that you remain the principal. Naming the legal relationship rather than gesturing at it is unusual, and it is the sentence to hold up next to every other product here that quietly does the same thing.
It is free, and the policy says where the money comes from: a section titled sponsored content and retail intelligence, with a commitment that dietary guardrails you set can never be overridden by sponsored content. An agent that both recommends and buys, funded by the people whose products it can recommend, is the arrangement this whole category is heading towards, and this is the first listing here to write it down.
OpenAI and Anthropic are named for the model work under terms the policy says forbid training. The one gap is the thread itself: it invites the whole household in, keeps everyone's allergies straight, and collects household details, and it never says what the people who never signed up can ask for.
What Served costs, and how you start
| Channels | iMessage |
|---|---|
| How you start | Text a number |
| Who starts it | Only when asked |
| Is there an app | No app Nothing to install at any point |
| Categories | Personal assistants |
| Can do | Web research,Payments,Group threads,Persistent memory,Email,Task management |
| Connects to | Walmart, Instacart, Gmail |
| Pricing | Free, stated on its own FAQ and repeated as free forever with no card needed. The policy has a section on sponsored content and retail intelligence, which is where the money is. |
| Number type | Not stated on its own pages |
| Contact number | +1 628 303 7286 |
| Documentation | None linked |
| First message, pre-written | None published |
| Runs on | Not disclosed |
| Browses with | Not disclosed |
| Number carrier | Not looked up |
| Status | Live |
Does Served train on your conversations?
| Trains on your conversations | Qualified statement“These providers process your inputs under their enterprise and API terms. Under those terms, your content is not used to train their models.” |
|---|---|
| Data of people who never signed up | Not addressed |
| What it holds when you connect an account | Not stated in the policy |
| If you cancel | The policy has a retention and minimisation section built around keeping less rather than around a period: it says raw photos and videos are not kept longer than needed and that structured detail is extracted instead. No deletion timetable is stated. |
| Model providers named | OpenAI, Anthropic |
| Jurisdiction | United States. California rights and other state rights have their own sections, with a separate section for international users and transfers. |
| Security document | None published |
| Asks before acting | Nothing published |
| Prompt injection | Not mentioned anywhere public |
| Bug bounty | None published |
| Availability | Not stated |
Served’s own pages answer 7 of the 9 questions this site asks of every listing. Not answered: names who carries the messages, says where to report a bug. About the middle of its kind: 25th of 56 personal assistants.
Quoted verbatim from the published policy on 2026-09-10, and what a document says is not the same as its legal effect.
Who makes Served
| Company | Chef.AI Incorporated |
|---|---|
| Founders | Not published |
| Based in | Not published |
| Funding | Not published |
| Investors | Not published |
| Traction | Not published |
From Served’s own pages at getserved.ai, last read 2026-09-10.
